The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.